Daily Archives: April 29, 2019

Enter for your chance to win $5,000 and publication in a short story anthology.

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Borders. Boundaries. Limits. Life is a continual process of crossing borders and discovering something new. Tell us stories about overcoming obstacles; of physical, spiritual, and emotional change and growth.

Lulu is an Internet self-publishing book company. Authors can upload books, manage the covers and order copies for distribution. Set-up is free and the books are made available for purchase online. Lulu is currently seeking short stories for a chance to be published in an their upcoming anthology on change.

Lulu’s $5k for 5k contest seeks original works of fiction and non-fiction that center on the theme “Crossing Borders.” Entries should clearly tie to the ideas of change and transition with an emphasis on crossing borders.

Submission Requirements

  • Submissions must be received during the contest period from 4/1/19 at 12:01 am ET to 6/30/19 at 11:59 pm ET.
  • Entries should clearly tie to the ideas of change, and transition with an emphasis on crossing borders. Both fiction and non-fiction entries will be accepted.
  • All entries must be between 2,000 and 5,000 words.
  • All entries must contain only original content. The author must own all rights to the content. Content includes both images and text. No copyright text or images. Quotes and licensed images must be properly attributed.
  • All entries must be submitted through the form below as a PDF or DOCX attachment. Limit one submission per author please.
  • Entrants must be 18 years or older. U.S. residents only.

Enter for your chance to win $5,000 and publication in a short story anthology.
Prizes

  • Grand Prize Winner will receive $5,000, plus a ticket to BookCon 2020 in NYC.
  • Shortlisted submissions will be included in the Crossing Borders Anthology, get a free copy of the anthology, and get Lulu swag.

Honor Flight Arizona Spring 2019 Flight Season Closes

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PHOENIX – Our final trip of spring 2019 will fly to Washington, D.C. early Monday morning, April 29th from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. This will be the last of four Honor Flight trips for central & northern Arizona this spring.

Our Veterans flying with us served in both WWII and the Korean War. We will have three former prisoners of war (POW) onboard. Two of them were prisoners of Japan in WWII. The third, served in both the Korean War and Vietnam War, and was a POW for eight years in Vietnam. We will also have a husband and wife on this trip who both served in the Korean War.

Honor Flight Arizona took its first flight of 11 WWII Veterans in November 2009, and has now flown more than 1,700 WWII Veterans, nearly 600 Korean War Veterans, and more than 1,400 guardians. We have a base of approximately 50 active volunteers.

There is currently a waiting list for Vietnam Veterans, and we hope to begin flying them in 2020 or 2021. They are encouraged to sign up on our website.

We thank Southwest Airlines, who is one of our major sponsors, and their employees. In addition, TSA employees compassionately process our Veterans through security.

On every trip, there have been so many handshakes, hugs, kisses, and “Thank you for your service” comments along the way. It all makes a huge difference in the lives of our Veterans. Many Veterans do not like to be called heroes – they will say that title is for those who did not make it home. But, because of all they sacrificed and endured, heroes are indeed what they are.

We will resume our flights for the fall 2019 season in September.